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Re: What's possible within a Notifier
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Re: What's possible within a Notifier


  • Subject: Re: What's possible within a Notifier
  • From: "Duane Murphy" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 10:41:43 -0800

--- At Fri, 14 Feb 2003 17:40:49 +0000, Mark Thomas wrote:

> From what I can gather from the docs, that you must use the OTMemAlloc and
>OTMemFree calls for any memory stuff, as basically you are running at
>interrupt time on 9.x. So the usually interrupt safe coding is required, and
>to be quick in what you do. (X your are a separate thread from what I'm seen
>from the debugger.)

While I cant specifically answer your question concerning notifiers. I
want to reiterate that OTMemAlloc can and will fail. OTMemAlloc is an
interrupt safe sub-allocator with a small amount of memory to work with.
You _must_ be prepared for OTMemAlloc to fail.

Just a friendly warning from experience. :-)

...Duane
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